Heavy Is the Hurricane

Despite the title, there is no hurricane in this story. 'Hurricane' is a metaphor. The only precipitation in the story were my tears that fell upon the pages as I wrote them.

There were scenes from this book that tore me up for DAYS after writing them. That when I looked back at the pages, I couldn’t fathom where that depth of darkness even came from. There were moments when reading scenes aloud to others, my throat got so thick that I felt like the words were strangling me. There were also months on end in which I couldn’t even put a single word to paper; I wasn’t in the right frame of mind to allow the weight of the character's feelings to compound with my own real-life situations.

As a reader, I don’t know how this will translate for you. But in a way, that is the adventure of reading fiction; the subjectivity that allows each of us to interpret and respond to the author’s prompts in our own unique way, based on our own experiences and biases.